CdnChelsea wrote:Please keep him in your prayers and thoughts. Life without him would not be the same.

I will definitely be saying a little prayer for him. He is a beauty isn't he. He should do fine. He will have the will to sail through this surgery as he obviously has a loving home with a caring "mom" that he wants to return to -- all the pampering, goodies and love who wouldn't want to come back to that?

"Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me: I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend." Albert Camus

As it turned out, the vet thinks Tinks' tooth is too badly infected right now to pull. He might even have to have more removed too. There is actually a small tooth between his canines that is loose and ready to fall out. Poor Tink.

So the vet gave him some antibiotics for the infection and ran some blood tests to see if there is any under-lying reasons why his teeth are so bad. He said there could be a number of diseases he could have.

Tink was an absolute gentleman when the vet and assistants were going over him. They said he was so sweet and gentle no matter what they did to him and wished all cats were like him. They even gave him a catnip toy to play with when he got home. Oliver our other furbaby decided it was his new toy and went absolutely goofy over it.Tink was patient and waited his turn to play. Now the toy is lost somewhere under the sofas.

Thank you all for the good thoughts and I will keep you up-dated when he goes back in January.

"Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earthare never alone or weary of life" ~ Rachel Carson